Re: [Usability] Standardizing Find and Replace windows

[Dan Zlotnikov <dzlotnik perpugilliam csclub uwaterloo ca>]

Who here is familiar with a program called EditPad? Unfortunately, a
Windows program, which means I can't provide screenshots this very moment.
It does, however, open a text tab at the *bottom* of the screen. This is a
whole lot more convenient than a program-modal dialogue.

Anyone with a Windows machine, screenshot, if you would?

Dan

On 1 Jul 2003, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 21:10, Gregory Merchan wrote:
> > Here's a fairly slipshod attempt to make "Find" and "Find and Replace"
> > windows that are suitable for all apps.
>
> For my part I'd rather put a text field in the status bar of a window,
> with a "find" button, or a pulldown choice,
>   find forwards
>   find backwards
>   open find/replace window
>
> I don't like "find" bringing up a dialogue box that obscures the text I
> was looking at.  This is only good user interface design in the "good
> means copying the mistakes of others" school of thought.  Another
> example of irritating insanity in this vein is the gimp's "crop"
> dialogue, which hides part of the window, coming up exactly over
> the place you're working and is always disruptive.  Wait until I've
> dragged the whole rectangle, guys, how hard can this be?
>
> So let's get rid of find dialogues altogether and improve the world.
>
> Liam
>
>
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